John Maynard Keynes

“הקושי לא טמון בפיתוח רעיונות חדשים, אלא בהשארת רעיונות ישנים מאחור.”

“רעיונות הם המעצבים את מסלול ההיסטוריה.”

“חקר ההיסטוריה של הדעות הוא תנאי מקדים לשחרור התודעה.”

“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”

“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.”

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”

“It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”

“Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.”

“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.”

“For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”

“The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”

“The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.”

“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”

“In the long run we are all dead.”

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”

“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”

“Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”

“Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.”